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Save Our Community was founded in the movement to resist Wal-Mart's development in Rosemead, California. Now, it has become a general site for news, information, gossip, talk, and blogging about Rosemead. We also have stories about South San Gabriel, San Gabriel, Montebello, and occasionally about Pico Rivera, El Monte, South El Monte, Alhambra, Temple City, and other nearby communities. Your host is Todd. If you want a blog just sign up, get approved, and start writing. Good posts will be moved onto the home page.

This is one of those unfunded mandates. Per the Federal Highway Administration, all street signs have to meet certain letter-size and reflectivity standards (i.e., be fully retro-reflective). The idea is to make them fully visible at night, in rainfall, etc., to assist emergency personnel and general drivers so they can more easily know when and where to turn.

Our old color scheme has to go, because there are only four approved background colors: blue, green, brown and white. We went with white, because the other three are all in use by our neighbors, and we want to be distinct. The lettering was originally intended to be blue, but we recently changed that to maroon to be more consistent with city colors. (The monument signs have maroon lettering, and City facilities also use maroon, not to mention Rosemead High School.)

Also, you may notice that the new intersection signs are no longer lit; the retro-reflectivity makes that generally unnecessary, and will save a bundle on electricity costs. (Yeah, I know they're not as quite as easy to read as the lit ones, but I haven't seen one yet that I couldn't still read.)

We have until 2012 to start rollout - not complete it, thank God - and although there is potential grant money that we will be applying for, there is no government funding, per se.